German snack firm Intersnack has agreed to acquire UK-based United Biscuits' (UB) snacks division, KP Snacks, from its private equity owners Blackstone and PAI Partners. This move is a part of the Intersnack's strategy to strengthen its ...
Tags: Intersnack, snack, snack business, food industry
Irish retailer Musgrave Group has launch a price cut campaign across its Superquinn stores. Prices will be cut by up to 40% on around 200 fresh food products across bakery, fresh meat, fruit and vegetables and cheese, the retailer ...
Tags: price cut campaign, Musgrave Group, bakery, fresh meat, fruit, vegetables
Del Taco, a North American fast food restaurant chain specialized in Mexican & American style foods, has introduced four limited time meals. The new meals, which will be available for $4, include Del's Deal, Classic Deal, a Grilled ...
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Speech by the Chairman of the Autonomous Region Located in the southwest frontier of the People's Republic of China, Tibet serves as an important gateway to South Asia. Tibet is an ethnic minority autonomous region where the Tibetan ...
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Speech by the Chairman of the Autonomous Region Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), situated in the northern border area of China, possesses unique regional advantage and consummate infrastructure. With abundant resources it enjoys ...
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Better4U Foods, a producer of all natural gluten-free and thin crust pizzas, has announced that its gluten-free frozen pizzas are available at nearly 100 Winn-Dixie stores across Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Winn-Dixie, a ...
Tags: thin crust pizzas, pizzas, food, natural gluten-free
A "coalition" of UK farming organisations has unveiled a ten-point plan that it claims will help secure the long-term future of the country's dairy industry. The plan, agreed by all members of the Dairy Coalition, focuses on "exposing bad ...
Tags: Campaign Strategy, Dairy, dairy industry
London-listed Ukrainian dairy firm Ukrproduct has forecast "improved" half-year profits. Ukrproduct said lower prices for raw milk, higher sales of cheese and the decision to start selling traditional fermented beverage kvass helped the ...
Tags: Profit Improvement, raw milk, cheese revenues, margin outlook
Dairy Crest has booked a 16% drop in first-half adjusted profits as continued difficulties at its milk unit weighed on the bottom line. The Cathedral City cheese maker said adjusted pre-tax profit fell to GBP19.1m (US$30.5m) for the six ...
Tags: pre-tax profit, Sales drop, milk sector
The UK's largest dairy processor Dairy Crest has made a full-year net loss after incurring impairment charges at its dairies business. For the 12 months to the end of March, Dairy Crest made a pre-tax loss of GBP10.1m (US$5.8m) compared ...
Tags: Costs, Profits, dairies business
Dairy Crest has said it is "on track" to up the price it pays farmers for milk after postponing plans to cut prices amid the fierce protests this summer. The UK dairy processor, which owns brands including Cathedral City cheese and ...
Tags: Milk Price, voluntary code, legal approval
Food processing giant Kraft Foods was forced to order the evacuation of around 1,800 people after a mixing error at a cream cheese factory in Germany created a cloud of hazardous gas. The incident, which took place at the ...
Shares in Dairy Crest were higher this morning (24 September) after the UK dairy group said its expectations for annual profits had not changed despite a "challenging" first half of the year. In a trading update, Dairy Crest admitted ...
Tags: Dairy, FY profit, H1 problems
Brazilian food group Brasil Foods has formed a whey processing joint venture with Irish dairy group Carbery. The joint venture, in which Brasil Foods will invest US$50m, emphasised its objective to increase its leadership in the cheese ...
Tags: Brazilian food, cheese sector, cheese manufacturing facilities
Posted by Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/26/2012 9:21:59 AM Polska Foods Pierogi, a leading provider of authentic Polish pierogi made with organic ingredients, announced today its new product labels that can now be ...